The Americans! They carry guns; we carry with us the hunger.


The guns and hunger. Anyway, both ultimately leads to death, the difference only being theirs is painless and is in a matter of instant and ours is years of inflictions and sufferings. In 2015 alone, 12,817 Americans died so far because of gunshot. We have no data how many Nepalese died because of hunger. We can never find out the toll because it’s almost always hunger cannot be diagnosed as the main cause of death in here. Hunger is rather a syndrome—heck lot of causes surmounts before it that eventually lead one to death. Hunger is when you are unable to feed sufficient enough to your body and as per physical demand. You have desire to eat more but usually you have to cut short your meal half the stomach—and that’s when hunger is. Hunger obviously gets you to nutritional deficiency and yes, emaciated individual cannot perform hundred percent of his ability. Reduced work performance means reduced income and rise of family dissatisfaction. That also hampers the body health and mental wellbeing of family members, particularly dependents. Unlike bullet of a gun, hunger is a slow socio-economic poison of the community. It is that insidious.  

Generally, American standards of living are believed to be the apotheosis of life style. So why, the United States has been among few career destinations of the third world citizens for decades. But now with relative ease in the ownership of weaponry in the name of personal safety, life of many of the aspirants who reached their long-coveted country have been put in the razorblade equilibrium to death. And in addition to hate rhetoric made by some presidential hopefuls, the accessibility of handguns to almost everyone may definitely flag the desire of enthusiasts who wish to embark the States as a career plan.

If improving our civilization of hunger means the gradual approach to one like that of United States, we deny improving now. Do away with hunger or political imbroglio: we are all set to progress. We don’t want guns in our hand, nobody wants. Guns have no conscience, and sometimes the person holding the gun loses mind and that’s exactly when someone gets killed. We as human often keep on making absent-minded decisions in our life—it’s only that we don’t notice them and when it comes to the gun a single of that class of decision renders a calamity and makes you repent a lifetime. Haven’t you slapped your spouse? Haven’t you found out ever that you forgot your wallet home while trying to pay for a coffee in a date? These types of actions are easily corrigible so they don’t matter much in long. And in state of emotional mayhem, anything could be corrigible until you did something while holding a gun in hand. Years of friend can be your murderer in a split-second if s/he goes berserk, with gun in hand. It is that dangerous. If one did not have arms, it did not matter whether s/he was radicalized or not. Isolated radicalization has never been this hazardous, let alone deliberate rumble until there was a gun. Then punching is now lynching, gang fight is now massacre. Firearm, thus, changed the wording, and the scenario of everything.  

It’s like in hunger we try to love and with guns they seem to practice hate. Getting a gun, in itself, means you long for a power to kill first and it’s only a popular excuse that it is purchased for personal security or yadda yadda yadda. Muscle of gun makes you to boast, not secure yourself. There are thousands other ways to secure your life except brandishing the gun.             

Remove gun, remove hunger—we both have a role model society.      


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